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They contact Ota at the main base. She helps work out the details.
"...After that, wire the transmitters and the main charge together," she says. "That way, the detonator also arms the normal mines, so the enemy's trapped inside a mine field. Pack pyrolytic grease over the main charge and it'll fill the forcefield with smoke, too."
"Laying mines. We've spent twenty fucking years laying mines," says Thaen.
"So you're good at it," says Ota.
"Fine. Then what?" asks Thaen.
"We pop out of spiderholes and move in, obviously," says Rinis. "We can finish off the big walker that way. Break in, kill the crew, leave before the smoke disperses."
"That could put us under a huge volume of fire," says Thaen. "I thought we were here to steal a shuttle? We've got to deal with the carrier."
"Do we? That's not our problem right now. Tozols can hide from air power," says Rinis.
"Also, isn't that carrier in a pitched battle right now?" asks Kaselir, cutting over the channel. "You're gonna fly past all their excited gunners, through active Scellor air defenses, which are still putting up missiles, by the way, and try to land through their shield? Wait, check that. You're gonna have your critter-in-a-bag fly you there. Now, if you take out that force field, I can bring out Syel and hunt their heavy assets, one by one."
"What are you all talking about?" asks Rook, in standard. "I can't understand any of you."
"Technically, just for the record, we can just detonate it, laugh, and start building the next IED, without getting close. Target's slow as fuck," says Ota.
>If the command walker is expected to pass over any tunnels then one option would be to pack the tunnel with explosives and collapse it while the walker is above.
Ordinarily, not a bad idea. But it'll be quite some time before the target crosses a main tunnel, and Vaejra's worried it's simply too large.
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